From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Customizing /etc
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 16:33:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pof6s30n.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tlv28gt.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Wed, 17 May 2017 10:28:18 +0200")
Ludovic Courtès (2017-05-17 10:28 +0200) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> This is almost the same message as:
>>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg01570.html
>>
>> I mean this is a reminder on the subject.
>
> Yes, I haven’t forgotten about it, contrary to what one might think.
> ;-)
Oh, great! (you're right, that's what I thought :-))
>> Ludovic, I think you suggested a good solution to a "Customizing
>> /etc/profile" problem. Since I will no longer be a blocker of
>> <http://bugs.gnu.org/20255> after this fix, would you like to commit
>> that change, or are there any issues with that?
>
> In the message you cite above, I proposed to hack etc-service-type in
> the same way we did for PAM.
>
> But then I think we’d better have the generic solution in place (where
> any service could be extended “at the end”, i.e., after it’s ‘compose’
> and ‘extend’ procedures have been called) before people start relying on
> the hack. I even started working on it long ago, and then moved on to
> something else.
Wow, a general solution for any service sounds really great!
> I’m sorry that this has not happened yet. I hope to resume work on it
> after the release, but if someone wants to give it a shot, I will
> definitely not block it.
I see :-) No hurry, I just was a bit concerned that your solution was
lost, but now I know that it's not, thanks!
--
Alex
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-16 8:43 Customizing /etc Alex Kost
2017-05-17 8:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-18 13:33 ` Alex Kost [this message]
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2016-09-14 7:35 User-profile search paths should include system-profile directories Carlos Sánchez de La Lama
2016-09-14 14:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-15 7:38 ` Alex Kost
2016-09-19 14:08 ` Customizing /etc Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-20 14:14 ` Alex Kost
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2015-11-23 20:07 ` Adding operating-system field for a custom /etc/profile Alex Kost
2015-11-24 15:22 ` 宋文武
2015-11-24 20:03 ` Alex Kost
2015-11-27 14:58 ` Customizing /etc Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-30 9:11 ` Alex Kost
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